Thursday, October 05, 2017

It is his ability to evoke the disturbing depths of human experience—our
fallibility and willingness to deceive ourselves with stories—that
marks the work of Kazuo Ishiguro, announced today as the winner of this
year’s Nobel prize for literature. In a world
where “fake news” and “alternative facts” have dangerous currency, Mr
Ishiguro’s ability to see beneath the surface makes him
a writer perfectly suited to these treacherous times

Monday, August 14, 2017

North and South Korea have agreed on very little in recent decades, but
this week their shared past means the two countries have a rare holiday
in common: Independence Day.

Called Gwangbokjeol
(“the day the light returned”) in the South and Chogukhaebangŭi nal
(“Liberation of the Fatherland Day”) in the North, the holiday is what
is known in the West as V-J Day, or Victory Over Japan Day.

The holiday is celebrated with patriotic fanfare in both countries,
although the North has found new ways to reassert its independence. For
the 70th Liberation Day in 2015 — amid renewed military tensions with the South — Pyongyang created its own time zone.

“The wicked Japanese imperialists committed such unpardonable crimes as
depriving Korea of even its standard time,” the North’s state-run news
agency said.

The country had previously been in the same time zone as South Korea and Japan, but its clocks are now set 30 minutes behind.

Monday, July 03, 2017

All but one of the 50 municipal seats went to the upstart Tomin First
Party, founded by Tokyo’s governor, Yuriko Koike. She is widely believed
to have ambitions to become Japan’s first female prime minister,
possibly as Mr. Abe’s successor.

Friday, December 02, 2016

Every
country with a State Department presence has volunteer wardens,
typically U.S. expats, to help American tourists who can’t get to an
embassy after their trips have taken an unpredictable turn down an
unimaginable road.

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